A suicide car bomb attack on an army training camp in Yemen’s second city of Aden killed at least 60 people on Monday, medical sources said. A security official said the attacker drove his vehicle into a gathering of new recruits at the camp in northern Aden. The assault killed 60 people and wounded 29 others, medical sources from the […]
» Read morePakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on Saturday recommended fine of Pak.Rs. 5 lakhs each on 13 channels for airing news of a third marriage of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan. A press release by PEMRA posted on Twitter said that the head of PTI’s central media Iftikhar Durrani had sought fine on media channels for airing unconfirmed reports […]
» Read moreU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Bangladesh on Monday to discuss security cooperation after a series of killings by Islamist militants, as well as economic development and human rights. Mr. Kerry will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Opposition and civic leaders during the one-day visit, his first to Bangladesh as Secretary of State.
» Read moreFurther needling India on the Kashmir issue, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday nominated 22 parliamentarians as special envoys to be despatched to world capitals to highlight the issue. “We will also remind the United Nations its long-held promise of self-determination to the Kashmiri people,” Mr. Sharif said. The move by Mr. Sharif comes in the backdrop of escalating […]
» Read morePolice say at least 20 people were killed and another 17 hurt when bus drove off a highway in Nepal and plunged into a river. Police office said the bus rolled about 100 meters (330 feet) down the slope early on Friday and crashed into the fast-flowing Trishuli river near Chandibhanjyang, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of the capital, […]
» Read moreExplosions and gunfire rocked the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul on Wednesday, an official and students trapped inside classrooms told AFP, in the latest militant attack in the Afghan capital. “I heard explosions and gunfire is going on close by… our class is filled with smoke and dust,” a desperate student told AFP by telephone. “We are stuck inside […]
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